Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities: a journey through scales

Y Zhou, RJR Williams, P Ramaprabhu, M Groom… - Physica D: Nonlinear …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrodynamic instabilities such as Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM)
instabilities usually appear in conjunction with the Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) instability and are …

Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instability induced flow, turbulence, and mixing. II

Y Zhou - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instabilities are well-known
pathways towards turbulent mixing layers, in many cases characterized by significant mass …

A comparative study of the turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor instability using high-resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations: the Alpha-Group collaboration

G Dimonte, DL Youngs, A Dimits, S Weber… - Physics of …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
The turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor instability is investigated in the limit of strong mode-coupling
using a variety of high-resolution, multimode, three dimensional numerical simulations NS …

Review of theoretical modelling approaches of Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities and turbulent mixing

SI Abarzhi - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We review the theoretical developments in the field of Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities and
turbulent mixing, discuss what is known and what is not known about the phenomenon, and …

A simple package for front tracking

J Du, B Fix, J Glimm, X Jia, X Li, Y Li, L Wu - Journal of Computational …, 2006 - Elsevier
A general purpose software package for the geometry and dynamics of an interface has
been extracted from the FronTier code developed by the authors and colleagues, and is now …

KL turbulence model for the self-similar growth of the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities

G Dimonte, R Tipton - Physics of Fluids, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
A turbulence model is developed to described the self-similar growth of the Rayleigh-Taylor
(RT) and Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instabilities. The model describes the dominant eddies in …

A numerical study of the influence of initial perturbations on the turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor instability

P Ramaprabhu, G Dimonte… - Journal of Fluid …, 2005 - cambridge.org
The effect of initial conditions on the growth rate of turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) mixing
has been studied using carefully formulated numerical simulations. A monotone integrated …

Dependence of turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor instability on initial perturbations

G Dimonte - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2004 - APS
The dependency of the self-similar Rayleigh-Taylor bubble acceleration constant α b
(≡[(amplitude)∕ 2]×(displacement)×(Atwood number)) on the initial perturbation amplitude …

Nanohydrodynamics simulations: an atomistic view of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability

K Kadau, TC Germann… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Nanohydrodynamics simulations, hydrodynamics on the nanometer and nanosecond scale
by molecular dynamics simulations for up to 100 million particles, are performed on the …

New directions for Rayleigh–Taylor mixing

J Glimm, DH Sharp, T Kaman… - … Transactions of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We study the Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) mixing layer, presenting simulations in agreement with
experimental data. This problem is an idealized subproblem of important scientific and …